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Of patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR TB), <50% complete treatment. Most treatment failures for patients with MDR TB are due to death during TB treatment. We sought to determine the proportion of deaths during MDR TB treatment attributable to TB itself. We used a structured verbal autopsy tool to interview family members of patients who died during MDR TB treatment in India during January-December 2016. A committee triangulated information from verbal autopsy, death certificate, or other medical records available with the family members to ascertain the underlying cause of death. For 66% of patient deaths (47/71), TB was the underlying cause of death. We assigned TB as the underlying cause of death for an additional 6 patients who died of suicide and 2 of pulmonary embolism. Deaths during TB treatment signify program failure; accurately determining the cause of death is the first step to designing appropriate, timely interventions to prevent premature deaths.

Up to 50% of persons with HIV and a diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) in Thailand die during TB treatment. In a prospective observational study, a team of physicians ascribed the cause of death after reviewing verbal autopsies (interviews of family memb...

To better define infectious diseases of concern in Thailand, trends in the mortality rate during 1958-2009 were analyzed by using data from public health statistics reports. From 1958 to the mid-1990s, the rate of infectious disease-associated deaths...

This manual is designed to help health care staff learn how to accurately complete the RVCT. Included are the instructions for how to complete each item on the RVCT and exercises that will help you apply the instructions to life-like situations.

Background : The epidemiology of non-Typhi Salmonella (NTS) bacteremia in Africa will likely evolve as potential co-factors, such as HIV, malaria, and urbanization, also change. : Methods : As part of population-based surveillance among 55,000 person...

Harvard School of Public Health. Maternal Health Task Force.; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (U.S.). Division of Reproductive Health.; United States. Agency for International Development.;

Published:

January 2014

Series:

Women and Health Initiative working paper ; no. 1

Description:

In June 2013, a group of international maternal health and HIV researchers came together in Boston under the auspices of the Maternal Health Task Force (MHTF) at the Harvard School of Public Health, the United States Agency for International Developm...